Shut your pie hole! (Page 2)

No.

The internet, and social media, have certainly become "public accommodation" in our society.  It's where the exchange of ideas takes place.....much more so than any other venue at this point.  And there are certainly people being denied a platform that others enjoy simply based on their beliefs. I give you "Diamond and Silk" being prevented from using Facebook.  It's as wrong as a gay couple being denied service from a bakery.....perhaps worse since D & S derived income from FB, the same as others who don't share their beliefs.

The left can't have it both ways.  If they insist, then I, and others like me, will dig in even deeper.  If we are constantly shouted down and deprived of our basic right to go on our way (as with the blocking of roads in protest) then we will simply fight back by saying no to every liberal ideal or tenant.  It's why the left lost the last presidential election.....as lost on them as that is.

I'm already there.  As I have said, socially liberal policies don't bother me.....but I'll go with NO every time under the current climate of double standard.

So I think most of you know that I'm as conservative as it comes and I think the bakery situation is a bunch of BS.  But the two situations are completely different as your political beliefs do not fall into a protected class.  Sexual Orientation does.  So yes, apparently you can discriminate against anything that is not a protected class.

The cake debate is certainly interesting, but there's honestly 1000 different ways we're all discriminated against.  I'm discriminated against because I'm ugly and I feel that I should be protected.  ;-) (ok, just being funny)
Anyways, constitutionally there are no protections based on sexual orientation so it is what it is.  i totally get that many are trying to change that, but it's so difficult from a legal standpoint that I doubt it ever will.

As for the social media stuff it's absolutely based on beliefs because they don't block progressive viewpoints no matter how hostile.  I can't find it now but there was a twitter account named something like "assassinate Trump" and it was filled with the most disgusting hate you could imagine.  Several people reported them and twitter responded to every one that it wasn't outside of their terms of service.  Yet you have people who are not hate filled, but simply challenge the liberal agenda and they get banned.

That being said, here's why I think it's really happening.  Twitter is a user policed environment where you or I can report things that we feel violate the terms of service.  Those reports go to twitter employees to review.  Twitter is based in San Francisco so 99.9999% of their employees are not conservative and they use their own editorial bias.  There have been several high profile conservative's being shut down and then after they get pumped up in the media they turn it back on because it's obviously uncalled for.
Collectively, Twitter, FB, and the others should strive to educate their employees to use more consistent judgement across the board, but I just don't think they want to do that.  I don't feel they directly endorse the shutting down of conservative voices, but they turn the blind eye which effectively does the same thing.